Sometimes its an IFV, sometimes its less of an IFV and uses that room for ATGM ammo stowage, sometimes it uses that room to store drones, as a kind of land mobile drone carrier, sometimes its a kind of… land mobile ELINT drone/comms jamming/snooping thing, sometimes its a … medium MBT?
It seems to have an actual active defense system, as opposed to the bullshit the Russians tried to sell to the Chinese a year or so back, which they eviscerated in their media when it was found that none of that Russian shit worked at all.
China appears to have invented a new class of fighting vehicle to go along with a new doctrine of armored combat.
TBF, the Israeli Merkava is also kind of an IFV, but it doesn’t have the native ‘drone carrier’ capabilities, afaik, nor an atgm oriented variant.
I like your way of thinking but sadly the M10 has been a victim of budget cuts.
Perhaps you’d be alright with…
https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/china-ztz201-medium-tank-hybrid-ai-drone-killer/
https://defence-blog.com/china-develops-new-modular-tank-and-fighting-vehicle/
Modular platform.
Sometimes its an IFV, sometimes its less of an IFV and uses that room for ATGM ammo stowage, sometimes it uses that room to store drones, as a kind of land mobile drone carrier, sometimes its a kind of… land mobile ELINT drone/comms jamming/snooping thing, sometimes its a … medium MBT?
It seems to have an actual active defense system, as opposed to the bullshit the Russians tried to sell to the Chinese a year or so back, which they eviscerated in their media when it was found that none of that Russian shit worked at all.
China appears to have invented a new class of fighting vehicle to go along with a new doctrine of armored combat.
TBF, the Israeli Merkava is also kind of an IFV, but it doesn’t have the native ‘drone carrier’ capabilities, afaik, nor an atgm oriented variant.